Watershed

Rapid urbanization of relatively small watersheds is the primary reason attributed to the reduced infiltration rate, increased runoff volume and the consequent flooding in the urban areas. This study focuses on selection of different Low Impact Development (LID) design options that can attenuate flood flows in urban areas. Watershed considered for this study is Moores Run watershed (8.8 Km2) located in Baltimore, Maryland. A basin scale curve number based hydrologic model was developed in…

knowledge. A systematic analysis of Figures 2 and 3 reveals that much urban sprawl has occurred in the D’Olive Creek Watershed from 1989 to 2016. As stated previously, impervious surfaces reroute runoff, which can impact sedimentation, erosion, and pollution processes in local environments. Over the past few decades, urban development has had negative effects on the local watershed (Coffee 2010). Based on Figures 2 and 3, it can be asserted that this environmental stress correlates with the…

I was trying to do my post based on the water pollution lab, however, the link would not open for me. Instead I did the lab with the cool google earth application and started doing research on the Santee Watershed in SC. This Watershed is home to, you guessed it, the Santee river. The Santee river is the second largest on the east coast weighing in (not really) at 228.8 km running from the Northwestern side of the state down and out the Atlantic on the Southeastern side. Data from this lab shows…

After working in the French Creek Watershed I began to hike around the lakes and streams. This means by having cleaner streams I would personally benefit from aesthetically pleasing clean streams. Even on a short weekend walk behind the cemetery I would pick up any bottles or small objects I saw I felt an obligation to give back to the area I was able to enjoy. I also understood it was vital to keep the area clean so it would stay enjoyably and inhabited by the animals I always hope to see.…

analysis of the city of Santa Cruz, California area in the San Lorenzo Watershed. My purpose was to determine if any relationship could be discovered between the rainfall and runoff data of the watershed area with the urbanization of the city. The problem at hand was to cross reference the development of Santa Cruz with the patterns of the local water data. Real precipitation and stream flow data within the San Lorenzo Watershed where studied from January to December of 2000 and 2010. I…

To understand how to reduce the volume or improve the quality of stormwater runoff based on green infrastructure, we must first define the types of green infrastructure technologies we will be discussing in the text. We have divided them in to eight categories: retention basins, rainwater harvesting, constructed wetlands, detention basins, bioswales, rain gardens, green roofs, and permeable pavement. Retention and detention ponds are fundamental green infrastructure technologies. Both retention…

perform the study, two streams were picked from different watersheds. In Carrollton, Georgia, Buffalo Creek from the Tallapoosa in the city limits was the first river we visited. This stream was next to paved roads, apartment complexes, and was located inside a paved park; urban area. The second stream, Yellow Dirt Creek, was located off a dirt road, with little to no houses close to it; rural area. This stream was part of the Chattahoochee watershed, and is in Roopville, Georgia. It is…

fit. Looking for an interview for this project was like looking for a needle in a haystack, almost impossible but when you find that needle, by golly are you happy. Another part of the project that caused me great frustration had to be from the Watershed moment, although it was minorly helpful, due to the fact that this…

A watershed is an area of land that run off water from rain or snow flows into and is then separated to a river or lake. Greeley has a watershed called cache de la poudre watershed. A watershed affects the quality and amount of flow through a stream or river at a given point. with $450 billion worth of food, fiber, manufactured goods and tourism. According to an article on nationalgeographic.org it says “they affect the quality and amount of flow through a stream or river at a given point.” This…

This case implicated a challenge brought by the Western Watersheds Project (“WWP”), in which the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) decided to grant a 10 -year grazing permit to LHS Spilt Rock Ranch, LLC (“Split Rock”), for four federal public land allotments in central Wyoming (“the Split Rock allotments”).1 The 102-page Environmental Assessment was published in 2009. Relying largely on the 2005 Rangeland Health Standards Assessment (RHS), it recognized significant ecological issues on the…